The third chapter of “Nemurenu Ou ni Sasagu Yogatari” has my favorite story of the series. Usually I don’t like stories about suicides, and I definitely don’t like spreading stories about “lovely suicides”, but something about this story punched me in the guts. Seeing your best friend, whom you’ve fallen in love with, get married to someone else is the
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Here’s the rest of what I bought in April. Surprisingly, I bought a lot of English language manga this month.
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“Bonnou Puzzle — Crush on You!” by Chihiro Kawakami is on the cover of the March 2015 issue of Cheese! The furoku is the Cheese! 20th anniversary Special Edition Selection. It consists of 6 works from various Cheese mangaka. The content looks VERY 90’s shoujo, as it should. What I read: “Hisama ni Kiss” Chp 2 — Now that Kiryuu
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Chapter 6 ends the two chapter arc that started in chapter 5. Child slavery is a heavy subject and I think this series managed to handle it well within the scope of Lala DX style shoujo. The problem is what happens after the end of this chapter. I have chapter 7, so I know the aftermath of freeing the children
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Title: カンナとでっち (Kanna to Decchi, Kanna to Detchi (this is the mangaka’s preferred romanization), Kanna and the Apprentice) Mangaka: 餡蜜 (Ammitsu) Publisher / Publication: Kodansha / Bessatsu Friend (Betsufure) Demographic: Shoujo Genre: Slice-of-life, romance, comedy ISBN: 9784063419597 Purchase: Amazon JP / Yes Asia / Kinokuniya US Synopsis: Kanna’s father, who is a carpenter, brings home a live-in apprentice, Katsuhiko. As
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